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pudiated Affidavit Saying He
Heard Conley Confess.
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member of his flock,
“These two men were unknown Lo
each of us., Neither of us had evor
seen or heard of them before
“Ia Z. Rosser acted in taking the
affidavits of these men, He put them
to the test of the most thorough
cross-examination of which he was
capabla. There was no effort to lead
them, to add to or color their story.
On the contrary, they were given
clearly to understand that Frank's
counsel wanted only the truth, and
in taking <heir afidavits we were
seeking nothing beyond just what
they knew and lknew accurately,
“The affidavits were prepared in
thelr presence, almost their very
words being taken by a competent
and honest stenographer. After the
affidavits had been typewritten they
were carefully read to each of the
witnesses and sworn to before a dis
interested notary public.
Believed Motives Pure.
“Nelther one of us dreamed that
they were acting corruptly, but bhe
lleved that they were acting from
pure motives to correct the wrong of
their former silence.
“They were asked to give the names
of their friends and associates, as the
law requires. They gave promptly
some of the most correct and upright
men in the city of Atlanta.
“‘Some of these men were promptiy
seen in an effort to determine wheth
er these men were what they seemed
and represented themselves to be.
“The result was in keeping with
their clalms. Some of the best men
in Atlanta vouched for them, and we
felt justified in presenting their story
to the court.
“It has come ta our ears this even
ing that both these men now recant
and claim they framed up their story.
“If these rumors be true, we de
nounce the perfidy of these men with
all the vehemence of our natures,
“Want Only the Truth.”
“In this Frank case we have never
wanted anything but the truth, have
never made use of anything but what
was believed to be the truth,
“We have belleved and now pro
‘oundly believe in Frank's innocence,
but even that conviction has never in
duced us to say one word that the
whole city of Atlanta could not hear,
nor to do anything that the whole
State of Georgia could not see.
“If these rumors are true, we will
at once cut these perjured witnesses
out of this case, just ags we have in
the past, and just as we will in the
future every fact and circumstance
that even squints at unfairness or
perjury.
“In proof that we did not act even
credulously and inadvisedly in this
matter, we submit copies of affidavits
of men who vouch for the character
of these men. :
“L. Z. ROSSER,
“HERBERT HAAS,
“LEONARD HAAS,
“REUBEN R. ARNOLD.”
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53 PEACHTREE 87 WHITEHALL
Scores Chief Lanford for State
ment Made to Burns Concern
ing Character Attacks.
Lo M. Frank issues this statement
to-dayv:
To the People’of Atlant
The city of Atianta has grown
to its present greatness and must
depend for its future growth upon
voung men like myseif who. rear
ed in other places but hearing of
the greatness of Atlania, come
here to cast their fortunes with
its people
When, Bix vears ago I left my
former home in Brooklyn, where
1 was raised, to come to Atlanta
to help build up a new enterprise
that would increase its prosperity
and give employment to many
people, 1 accepted the opportunity
gladly and came without any
foreboding of evil.
I supposed that so long as I
llved a decent, upright life and
did my duty that no harm would
come to me anywhere, 1 did not
suppose that there was a place in
the United States where a man
could not get fair play. Suddenly,
like a bolt of lightning from a
clear sky, this terrilde calamity
came upon me, ] was at work on
a Saturday aflternoon in my office
where 1 had a right to be, where
it was my duty to be, when a
voung girl was foully murdered In
the same building. As to how she
was killed or who kiiled her 1
knéew no more than a man ten
thousand miles away.
Tells of His Trial.
1 was arrested and put on trial,
or rather what was called a trial.
The minds of the peopie, already
infuriated by the brutality of the
crime, were driven to madness by
the whispered word that 1 was a
pervert and a degenerate of the
foulest type. I became an object
of detestation and loathing. The
whole city, except a few faithful
friends, turned away from me in
disgust and abhorrence. People
said: *“Even if he is not guilty
of the murder, he ought to be
hanged” Under such conditions,
it was impossible for me to get a
fair trial. /
As one of the lawyvers expressed
it. I had as much chance for my
life as a canary bird in a basket
of cats. No wonder that the judge~
of the court certified that he
« feared for my life and the lives
of my attorneys should the jury
acquit me, No wonder one of the
jury was movéd to tell a friend
that if they had freed me not one
of the jury would have left the
courthouse alive.
And now, here at the last hour,
comes Newport A. Lanford, head
of the detective department, after
Mr. Burns has cornered him, and
serenely announces that the
charge of perversion never en
tered into the case, that neither
the State nor the police depart
ment ever claimed or did now
claim that I was a pervert, and
_ that the charge was injected into
the case by my own lawyers.
Tvidently, he considers the peo
ple of Atlanta an aggregation of
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Ilmn.u boy shot at the taking of Vera
| Cruz, were rejoiced Tuesday to learn
| that his wounds are not serious and
) that he will be able to get back on
lnin(}' within a week or two if he de
| Bires
| He was wounded in the left foot in
ilhn fighting. He was one of the Ches
| ter's crew and enlisted from Atlanta in
January, 1912, His parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Vandy 1. Johns, of No. 572 Waldo
street He was 20 vears old Sunday,
lllm day after ha was hurt.
The first news which came to Atlanta
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fears that he might die. They wired
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January
asses. But was there ever such
effronterv? After using this
charge in every way conceivable
to railroad me through to the gal
lows, after the Solicitor has made
it the chief subject of his nine
hour speech, after the Supreme
Court has affirmed the verdict
principally on that ground, he
now says it did not enter into
the case, g
Whole Case, He Says.
Not enter into the case!
] say it was the whole case,
It is deeply significant that si
multaneously with the withdraw
al of the charge of perversion
against me, Mr. Burns has come
into absolute proof through let
ters written in Conley’s own hand
that he is a vile degenerate and
practiser of unnatural crimes
which the law of this State pun
ishes by life imprisonment in its
penitentiary. These letters are in
his possession and are open to
the inspection of any men in At
lanta, who wants to look at them.
Is it ‘possible that I am to be
hanged on the word of a creature
like this? lls it possible that my
life of decency is to weigh noth
ing? Is it possible that this city
has in it so little of the spirit of
fair play?
Am I not stating the truth
when 1 say that the withdrawal
by Chief Lanford of the charge
against me of perversion puts my
case in a new and entirely dif
ferent light? Is it not a circum
stance that should appeal most
powerfully to the courts in my
application for a new trial? Is
there a man in Atlanta who would
deny that the charge of perver
sion was the chisf cause of my
conviction, or deny that the case,
without that charge, would be an
entirely different question?
LEO M. FRANK.
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The State Text Book Commission,
composed of the Board of lducation
and a special Legislative committee
appointed to investigate Siate publi
cation of school books, and required
to report to the next session of the
Legislature, adopted its report Tues
day, in which it rejects the proposal
of State publication.
The report was adopted with a dls
senting opinion from Representative
McCrory, and an additional but en
tirely separate dissenting report from
Superintendent Brittain.
The sub-committee, which for
months has had this question in hand,
and which had investigated the mat
ter most thoroughly, submitted a re
port discrediting the proposed State
publication of school books, but pro
viding a tentative plan for experi
menting on two or three books, if the
Legislature saw fit to order the same,
Finally |s Beaten.
This passed the entire Commission
upon a vote taken in the early fore
noon, but late was reconsidered and
the Commission, with the exceptions
noted, was then placed on record
squarely against State publication.
Representative McCrory was the
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;’only man who voted against the re
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State publication, but rather agrees
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Mr. ‘McCrory's minority report
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The arguments indulged in Tues
day at times became very heated, ani
it is evident that the entire question
i® to go before the legislature for a
complete and thorough alring when
| that body meets in July.
l Risk Deciared Too Great.
Representative McCrory, in a
}spmwh before the Commission, said
that he proposed “going into every ru
ral district in the State” and to “tight
this battle to a finish,” both in the
General Assembly and “on the
stump,” if necessary.
; The gist of the Commission's find
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great risk, all things considered, -
{ ter into the publication of its own
| textbooks, and the proposal of the so
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Tuesday unquestionably means a bit
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